What is the difference between .shn and .m2v?
- Extension
- .shn
- .m2v
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Video
- Developer
- Shorten
- Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
- Description
- The SHN file format, short for Shorten Compressed Audio File, is a type of compressed audio file developed for efficiently archiving high-quality digital audio. Shorten was one of the early lossless compression methods for audio, meaning it allows the exact original audio data to be reconstructed from the compressed data, without any loss in quality.
- Video only (without audio) encoded using MPEG-2 compression
- MIME Type
- audio/x-shn
- video/mpeg
- Sample
- sample.shn
- sample.m2v
- Wikipedia
- .shn on Wikipedia
- .m2v on Wikipedia